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Robotics company speak out against weaponized robots – Meaningful Human Control
In an open letter, six robotics companies turned to the robotics industry and society at large to speak out against weaponizing robots. The robotics companies „Boston Dynamics“, „Anybotics“, „Agility Robotics“, „Clearpath Robotics“, „Open Robotics“ and „Unitree“ pledged not to weaponize their robots nor to utilize their own developed systems for such …
Project presentation at the FONAS annual conference
At this year’s annual meeting of the “Research Association for Science, Disarmament and International Security” (FONAS), which took place from 28th to 29th September 2022 in Darmstadt, Germany, Stephanie Schmidt (Universität Hamburg) presented our project. The mission of FONAS is to promote the scientific work in the context of disarmament, international …
Consortium members at the panel at EASST in Madrid
Jutta Weber (Paderborn University) and Christoph Ernst (University of Bonn) organized a panel together with Katherine Chandler (Georgetown Univerity) at the European Association for the Studies of Science and Technology (EASST) in Madrid (6.-9. July 2022) on the subject “Meaningful Human Control? Sociotechnical Imaginations of AI, Drone Swarms and the Future of Warfare“. In …
Westfalen-Blatt reports about research project
The German newspaper Westfalen-Blatt reported on the research project on 22/02/2022 in an online article. Find out more in the article “Universität Paderborn: Forschungsverbund hinterfragt autonome Waffensysteme” …
